JamesTDG

Yeah, yeah, I know, I know, I said I was going to leave this account abandoned, I just had to begin project cockblock, essentially a method to cock block content scrapers from stealing my art to train their god awful AI. As of me posting this journal, my full DA account content is now all 1 image. It is free to use, IDGAF if you credit me or not, we need to end content theft from us artists. Honestly, I was more on a neutral side when I first heard of Dall-E, I thought it was neat that a computer could do all this cool stuff, but holy shit did it backfire when I learned of their methods to train their AI. I'm officially on team No AI now, as people are taking credit for content that is NOT their own that uses content that OTHERS made to generate their art. For those with that absurd notion about how I need to keep my art saved in case I wanted to look back, I do have it backed up over on Toyhouse: https://toyhou.se/17879645.art-examples Some art has been also uploaded to Newgrounds

Earlier in this month (November), DeviantArt introduced DreamUp AI, a HEAVILY controversial tool that likely used user content, including even my own, to train the AI, against EVERYONE's wills. While I would normally just delete an account because of this situation, I am instead going to abandon this account, as this account is the most relevant item when you search my username online (Please note that the Instagram result is NOT me, that was an impersonator who wanted to steal my username). If you want to find me elsewhere, I am established on Newgrounds under the username dwarfbatman (it is an old username), alternatively, you may subscribe to my Toyhouse account (JamesTDG). Well, it is time to leave this site forever, cya all.